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April 3, 2026
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Software Engineer, Cloud Dataproc, Open Source

Sunnyvale, CA
Full-time
Onsite
$147K/yr - $211K/yr
Entry, Mid Level
Google is a technology company that develops next-generation technologies impacting billions of users. They are seeking a Software Engineer to work on Cloud Dataproc, focusing on enhancing open-source data analytics workloads in the cloud and developing high-impact features for their products.
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Responsibilities

  • Build high-impact customer-facing features which make Cloud Dataproc the best place to run Hadoop and Spark in the cloud
  • Drive technical design and execution for differentiated Performance and LakeHouse features and enhancements in an ambiguous problem space
  • Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency)
  • Enhance Apache Spark for performance, reliability, security, and monitoring, and simultaneously enhance Lake House technologies like Iceberg, Hudi, or Delta Lake for performance, security, and monitoring
  • Contribute to and adapt existing documentation or educational content based on product and program updates, as well as user feedback, while also extending open-source technologies like Apache Spark, Hive, and Trino to improve their debuggability, observability, and supportability

Qualification

Required

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
  • 2 years of experience with performance optimization, systems data analysis, visualization tools, or debugging
  • Experience developing with Spark, Hive, or with similar processing frameworks
  • Experience with Open-Source

Preferred

  • Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field
  • Experience developing frameworks such as Apache Spark, Trino, or Flink
  • Knowledge of open-source big-data performance optimization problems
  • Ability to work across boundaries in a distributed team

Benefits

  • Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
  • Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
  • Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
  • Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
  • Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
  • Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
  • Holidays: 13 paid days per year
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